Call for Papers

Polysynthetic languages are languages where words typically consist of many morphemes, each with independent meaning. Polysynthetic languages occur all over the world. In particular, the Indigenous languages of the Americas are polysynthetic, as well as many languages of Australia, Siberia and New Guinea.

This workshop aims to bring together specialists in language technology and linguists on one hand with language practitioners and revitalization experts on the other. Our goal is to foster an informed dialogue about these languages with contributions from all workshop attendees, so that polysynthetic languages can benefit from most recent advances of language technology, in a way that is helpful, productive and addresses immediate needs of the language communities. The workshop has been planned around COLING to ensure that computational advances for these complex languages both draws on the knowledge of related communities and contributes to their needs.

We seek two types of contribution:

(1) original research papers which present results of linguistic and computational linguistic analysis;

The former type of paper follows the expected academic requirements for research papers; the latter is more experiential so could, by definition, be of a different nature from the typical conference paper. Submitters will be asked to categorize their papers as either type (1) or (2) or both, which will then drive the selection of reviewers. This will ensure that all papers are reviewed fairly.

Important Dates: We will have two opportunities for submissions. For those not submitting to the main COLING conference, relevant dates are:

Primary organizer: Judith L. Klavans, Army Research Laboratory Co-organizers (alphabetically listed): Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada Roland Kuhn, National Research Council of Canada Steven LaRocca, Army Research Laboratory Jeffrey Micher, Army Research Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland Omer Preminger, University of Maryland Clare Voss, Army Research Laboratory

Program Committee:

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Antti Arppe, U. Alberta

David Harrison, Swarthmore College

Jeffrey Micher, ARL

Mark Baker, Rutgers University

Gary Holton, UHawai'i-Mānoa

Marianne Mithun, UCSB

Steven Bird, Charles Darwin U

Marianne Ignace, Simon Fraser U

Timothy Montler, U N Texas

Aaron Broadwell, U of Florida

Roland Kuhn, NRC (Canada)

Rachel Nordlinger, U Melbourne

David Chiang, U Notre Dame

Stephen LaRocca, ARL

Boyan Onyshkevych, DARPA

Lauren Clemens, SUNY Albany

Lori Levin, CMU

Maria Polinsky, UMd

Richard Compton, U de Québec à Montréal

Gina-Anne Levow, U Wash

Omer Preminger, UMd

Christopher Cox, Carleton U

Patrick Littell, CMU, NRC (Canada)

Carl Rubino, IARPA

Amy Dahlstrom, U of Chicago

Alexa Little - 7000 Languages

Lane Schwartz, UIUC

Henry Davis, U British Columbia

Jordan Lachler, U of Alberta

Richard Sproat, Google

Jeff Good, SUNY at Buffalo

Mitch Marcus, U of Penn

Clare Voss, ARL

Jeremy Green, Univ Hawai’i Hilo

Michael Maxwell, CASL-UMd

Michelle Yuan, MIT

Nizar Habash, NYU Abu Dhabi

Mission

Advancing an integrated science of language, through research and training that links fundamental science with applications in education, technology, and health.